Well now, here's my solution... So, the government makes a law requring all email hosts such as hotmail, yahoo, excite, msn, ladee da companies to make a new email inbox protection system. That system would be simple... so simple it's funny. The bulk of junk emails come from software that lets the spammer make up a fake return address and so he doesn't have to send junk email from a real address. Well, this fake return address that is pasted onto the email and sent from the spammer's pc is going to get blocked. The new systems will read the return email address, send an encoded return reply and validate that the email address is real and is being sent from a real email provider and not from a home pc.( http://centralops.net/co/EmailDossier.vbs.asp ) SIMPLE AS THAT! The only way to get around that is to actually send junk email from a REAL account such as one under HOTMAIL or MSN, but that would be just plain stupid. The sender's IP address is sent attached to every email... last time I checked (maybe the same happens for homemade emailing, but I'm not sure). Or if that isn't readable, HOTMAIL or MSN can be contacted, and they would have the IP address of a certain sender in a user's access log. My IP address starts out 64.***.**.*** ( http://www.whatismyip.com/ ) the digits automatically pinpoint the general location of an internet service, for me it's ********.net Once the service provider is found (simply by using a traceroute -free to use on the net) you send a complaint to that provider or a warning from your lawyer to block future spam.
As a final suggestion for the government's 'pursuit of happiness', the email spammer should get his picture put on the front page of the local newspaper with the caption reading:
"(name) PROBABLY SENT YOU THAT LATEST JUNK EMAIL... *here's what this person did...*"
With the ability to block fake emails and track real emails that are spam people can report spammers and those spammers could be charged heavy fines by the government.
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Here's the traceroute link (I forgot to give that)... http://security.symantec.com/ssc/vr_main.asp
Well now, here's my solution... So, the government makes a law requring all email hosts such as hotmail, yahoo, excite, msn, ladee da companies to make a new email inbox protection system. That system would be simple... so simple it's funny. The bulk of junk emails come from software that lets the spammer make up a fake return address and so he doesn't have to send junk email from a real address. Well, this fake return address that is pasted onto the email and sent from the spammer's pc is going to get blocked. The new systems will read the return email address, send an encoded return reply and validate that the email address is real and is being sent from a real email provider and not from a home pc.( http://centralops.net/co/EmailDossier.vbs.asp ) SIMPLE AS THAT! The only way to get around that is to actually send junk email from a REAL account such as one under HOTMAIL or MSN, but that would be just plain stupid. The sender's IP address is sent attached to every email... last time I checked (maybe the same happens for homemade emailing, but I'm not sure). Or if that isn't readable, HOTMAIL or MSN can be contacted, and they would have the IP address of a certain sender in a user's access log. My IP address starts out 64.***.**.*** ( http://www.whatismyip.com/ ) the digits automatically pinpoint the general location of an internet service, for me it's ********.net Once the service provider is found (simply by using a traceroute -free to use on the net) you send a complaint to that provider or a warning from your lawyer to block future spam. As a final suggestion for the government's 'pursuit of happiness', the email spammer should get his picture put on the front page of the local newspaper with the caption reading: "(name) PROBABLY SENT YOU THAT LATEST JUNK EMAIL... *here's what this person did...*" With the ability to block fake emails and track real emails that are spam people can report spammers and those spammers could be charged heavy fines by the government.